W.E.B. Du Bois

A culture of reverence for the U.S. Constitution shields the founding document from criticism, despite its many shortcomings.

Sinha enlarges the temporal boundaries students are accustomed to by covering the end of the 19th century into the Progressive era with the 19th Amendment.

When police raided Columbia University in May, commentators drew parallels to the 1968. But the school’s hostility to the antiwar movement traces back to 1917.

A shocking image of the 1906 atrocity survived but failed to become a humanitarian touchstone.

How Black artists made modernism their own.

Historian Manisha Sinha argues that the Second Republic lasted decades longer than most histories state and achieved wider gains.

Despite frequent litigation, U.S. courts have created a blurry line that puts administrators in an impossible situation.

African American insurance and the actuarial double bind.

Historian Robin Blackburn has completed a trilogy of books that provide a comprehensive Marxist account of slavery in the New World.

The 2024 OAH Conference on American History falls almost fifteen years after the renowned historian, teacher, and activist's death.

In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery. Pervasive underdevelopment is their legacy.

Jewish suffering at the hands of Nazis are the foundation on which most descriptions of extreme ideology and atrocity have been built.

The UN’s failure to dismantle the colonial order foreclosed the application of the Genocide Convention to Israel, South Africa, and the United States.

An effort is underway to restore President Wilson’s reputation as a great reformer. His best reforms were won by a mass movement, often pushing against Wilson.

When viewing federal authority as a bulwark for civil rights against local tyranny, we miss what the U.S. government has done to sustain white freedom.

Segregated lives of pride and peril on Firestone's Liberian plantations.

Historians depict late 19th-century American business elites as agents of progress, but many of them could also be called “terrorists.”

A discussion on the difficulty of keeping faith in a foundationally anti-Black republic.

“I’d assumed this practice was a manifestation of military decorum.”

In 1901, a series of articles took a dim view of the era, and of the idea that all Americans ought to participate in the democratic process.